Bridging to transplantation in acute liver failure in a 7-month-old infant

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 118, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 298-301

  Trittenwein, Gerhard ^a,b   Boigner, Harald ^a   Mostafa, Gehan ^a   Burda, Gudrun ^a   Mühl, Adolf ^a   Amann, Gabriele ^b   Pollak, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Albumin dialysis; Encephalopathy; Infants; Mars

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CORTISONE; HEPARIN;

ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPLANT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA;

ALBUMINS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745748141     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-006-0580-7     Document Type: Article

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